Early one morning when Mohsen Rezaei was 13 years old, his mother shook him awake. “Mohsen,” she said. “It’s time. Pack your things. We have to get moving now.” Her hushed and hurried tone told young Mohsen everything he needed to know. `Moving’ meant ‘leaving’: leaving their home, leaving their town, leaving Iran. Probably for… Continue Reading
For globetrotting Whitney Gore, EMBA ’22, work and school go hand-in-hand. She set the tone for herself early. In high school, she worked during the summers on a horse ranch in Montana and on construction sites around Edmonton, Alberta as part of a survey crew. The Canadian transplant then spent tireless undergraduate years living, studying,… Continue Reading
This past summer, HEC Paris Executive MBA participants took part in the Outdoor Leadership Seminar for the first time. The seminar is a highlight of the HEC Paris MBA schedule. It is designed to improve team leadership skills through a series of increasingly difficult tasks. Decision-making and leadership skills are put to the test, far… Continue Reading
Thierry Gahamanyi, EMBA ’19, founded his startup, MAGMA Energy, in the effort to reduce the production costs of gas for renewables. The idea for MAGMA Energy came gradually to the 41-year-old over a successful, 18-year career in negotiating and justifying purchases of biomethane injection stations for Engie and GRDF, two French energy behemoths. There, he… Continue Reading
Hubert Evariste Vieyra and Maryse Lokossou, both alumni of the HEC Paris Executive MBA, were named among the French-African Foundation’s count of 100 Young Leaders this year. The list is the result of some 3,000 applicants across 39 different sectors; all are between the ages of 28 and 40 and hail from 53 countries. The… Continue Reading
This specialization, which takes participants to Berlin and Doha in addition to the HEC Paris campus at Jouy-en-Josas, is geared towards executives working or planning to work energy production and consumption. It also attracts those for whom greenhouse gas reduction policies could significantly impact corporate bottom lines. The resulting need to define and implement a… Continue Reading
Gartner, a research and advisory firm, released a workplace survey in 2018 that found that 80% of employees feel they lack the skills required in their current or future roles. Suffice it to say, for organizations jostling for position on their sector’s cutting edge, re-skilling workforces is an urgent task. Andrew Saidy, EMBA ‘2022, and… Continue Reading
In December 2017, Bola Bardet got a panicked phone call from her mother in her native Benin. Her father, a longtime sufferer of hypertension, had just had a heart attack. The prognosis was not good; he needed immediate surgery. “In Benin, a country with 10 million people, there is not a single cardiothoracic surgeon,” she… Continue Reading
When he started at the HEC Paris Executive MBA, Luca Zaccagna was, like many of his colleagues at the Whirlpool Corporation, a company “lifer.” There, the Italian national would rise to Head of Supply Chain Operational Excellence, spearheading EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) supply chain strategy. “It was like home,” he says of… Continue Reading
Imagine, for a moment, a library. Silent reading rooms, rows of leather-bound books, and perhaps a bespectacled librarian may come to mind. Images redolent of nostalgia and perhaps personal meaning if you’ve spent time in libraries studying or researching. For many, libraries represent places of poignancy, even if they haven’t stepped foot in one recently.… Continue Reading
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